Miresua is an imaginary, artificial, constructed language; a conlang. These words are not randomly generated. Miresua is an eclectic alphabetic mix of Basque and Finnish, two unrelated European languages.

30 July 2009

suli = fire (noun) (Some things Google found for "suli": SULI is an acronym for Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships; a uncommon first name that can be feminine or masculine; a last name; Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli was a 10th century Arab poet and legendary shatranj (an ancestor of chess) player; Jiangyin Suli Fine Chemical Co., Ltd. of China; means "crook, grifter, cheater, shark" in Estonian; a conjugation of the Finnish verb sulaa which means to melt or to thaw; a slang term for "school" in Hungarian; name of cities in the Philippines, Albania, Nigeria, Mozambique, Indonesia, Serbia & Montenegro and Iraq; name of a town in Russia)

26 July 2009

halden = horse (animal) (noun) (some things Google found for "halden": a very common term; a last name; a masculine first name; halden hound (haldenstøvare) is a breed of dog; means "mound, slagheap, slope" in German; name of a cities in Germany, Austria, and notably, Norway)

22 July 2009

kazet = fox (animal) (noun) (some things Google found for "kazet": an uncommon term; title of an album by the South African mbaqanga group the Mahotella Queens; user names; an unusual last name; Kazet Sp. is a Polish window company; a theater company inaugurated by some Jewish Nazi concentration camps theater survivors after WWII; means "catridge, cassette, magazine" in Slovio and maybe in Czech as well; means "accent" in Volapük; name of cities in Burma)

My previous Miresua word for "fox" was "tuare". I decided to redo this word because neither the Basque word or the Finnish word has a vowel combination. This new word should end in a vowel, but it doesn't. I decided to allow this word anyway because I think it's a alphabetic better mix.

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for "fox" is now "kezi".

20 July 2009

hebä = cow (creature) (noun) (some things Google found for "heba" and "hebä": a common term; Heba is a feminine first name which may be Arabic; Heba appears as user names; Heba is a last name; Heba Fastighets AB is a Swedeish residential property management company; Abdi-Heba was king of Jerusalem about 1400 B.C.; hebä may mean something in Switzerland; Heba is the name of cities in China, Iraq, and Albania)

My previous Miresua conlang word for cow was häbe. This is a minor change. I swapped the vowels around because both the Basque and Finnish words have E as the second letter.

My word definition of hebä should not be seen as a comment about people and things called Heba. I have nothing against anyone or anything named Heba. This is merely a word in my made-up, conlang language.

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for cow is now lehi.

18 July 2009

käge = snake (creature) (noun) (some things Google found for "käge" and "kage": a common term; Kage and Käge are last names and user names; The Legend of Kage is a video game; Kage Baker is a SF writer; "kage" means "cake" in Danish; "kage" means "shadow" in Japanese when written in romaji; Kage is the name of a city in Nigeria and towns in Papua New Guinea and Sweden; Kage Obo is a city in Pakistan)

14 July 2009

eikan = right (noun) (some things Google found for "eikan": an uncommon term; Eikan-do temple in Kyoto, Japan; a Japanese era name (983-985); user names; a last name; means "laurels, garland" in Japanese (transliterated))

10 July 2009

itzä = star (noun) (some things Google found for "itzä" (really "itza"): a common term; Chichen Itza (or Chichén Itzá) is a pre-Columbian archaeological site in Mexico; The Itza Maya are a Guatemalan ethnic group; Itza is a last name that can be Mexican; Lake Peten Itza in Northern Guatemala)

02 July 2009

rohar = grass (noun) (some things Google found for "rohar": an uncommon term; a last name; Rohar's Roughnecks is a Guild Wars guild; user names; Rohar Trucking of Illinois; RoHar is an antigen; Phumi Rohar is a town in Cambodia)

About Me

Young enough to daydream, old enough to be somewhat realistic. I'm creating words in a made-up language. I'm not a linguist. Mariska is an old-fashioned Hungarian form of the name Mary. It's pronounced Marishka.

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About Miresua

Miresua is a scramble of Basque and Finnish, two languages that I don't actually speak but I find interesting. Words are intended to look foreign to English speakers.

There is nobody in this world that speaks Miresua as their native language. Miresua is a made-up, constructed language used in my fantasy writing.

The Basque and Finnish words shown are correct to the best of my knowledge.

When I say that a word equals something in English that is my definition only; it's not true in the real world. The miscellaneous information I list about the words is what Google search found on the Internet for that word.

The grammar of Miresua will take rules from Basque and Finnish. Miresua will be agglutinative language (as are Basque and Finnish), a regular language with a high rate of affixes per word. Miresua will be a Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) language, which is like Basque, but unlike Finnish (and English). Although unlike Basque, but like Finnish, adjectives occur before the noun which they modify. Miresua, unlike Finnish, doesn't feature vowel harmony. (For my experiment with vowel harmony, see my Samgur artlang).

Finnish language

Finnish (native name: Suomi) is spoken in Finland. It is a minority language in the Northern European countries of Sweden, Norway, Russia, and Estonia. Finnish is a member of the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic language family (which also includes Hungarian). There are about 6 million total speakers of Finnish.

Basque Country flag - Ikurrina

Basque language

Basque (native name: Euskara) is spoken by in Basque Country, a region in the western Pyrenees mountains of Spain and France. Basque is a language with no demonstrable relationship with any other living language. There are about 1 million total speakers of Basque.